Giancarlo Rolando is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in the quotidian experience of Indigenous-settler relationships in Amazonia and the politics of identity, environmental conservation, and development. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the Mastanawa People of the Upper Purus River and written about their experience of the encompassing society through analysis of their quotidian interactions with their neighbors and narratives of their contact process. His current research examines the ways in which Indigenous Peoples of Peruvian Amazonia engage with and participate in development projects and environmental conservation initiatives that overlap with their ancestral territories. At Trinity, he teaches classes on contemporary Indigenous worlds and the making of the Global South.

curriculum vitae

• 2025. Who is Responsible? Indigenous and State Forms of Responsibilisation for the Environment in Peruvian Amazonia. Ethnos, co-authored with Evan Killick
• 2024. Indigenous Peoples as resources and as resource-makers in Peruvian Amazonia: comparative ethnographic perspectives from the Purus-Manu Conservation Corridor. Journal of Peasant Studies, co-authored with Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti 
• 2024. Between Co-Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative perspectives from two Reservas Comunales. Bulletin of Latin American Research 43(2): 104-119, co-authored with Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
• 2022. Humos, aires y olores patógenos: apuntes para una epidemiología mastanawa. Las Enfermedades que Llegan de Lejos: Los pueblos amazónicos del Perú frente a las epidemias del pasado y a la Covid-19. Eds. Oscar Espinosa and Emanuele Fabiano. Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 355-368.
• 2019. Story of Two Videos Plus Coda: Perspectives of “contact” in Western Amazonia. Tipiti: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 16(1): 52-68.